The Welsh Assembly Government has announced that its scheme to reimburse wrongly paid care home fees prior to April 2003 will be coming to an end on the 4 December 2009.
The scheme was established following the Health Ombudsman report which advised Local Health Boards to review cases from April 1996 to date. If a person has been contributing towards their care fees from 1996, they may be entitled to a reimbursement of their fees. This is the case even if the person who was cared for has since died.
The scheme which is managed by Powys Local Health Board has paid out over £18 million pounds to over 500 Welsh families since 2004 in wrongly paid nursing home fees.
It is important that people are aware of this new deadline. This is their last chance to ask the Local Health Board for a review of care home fees paid before April 2003.
